Any bassplayers here play guitar too?

I've been playing bass for 7 years now... I am tired of not being able to find other musicians who play what I want to hear. So my goal is to become a one man band!

Anyways I just bought a MIA Fender Strat and I am wondering if any other bass players made this transition to guitar. Are there any pointers, tips and tricks you can give me?

I am finding it difficult to play a smaller neck and smaller strings with smaller spacing between them. The thing thats REALLY driving me nuts is chords. I know its gonna take some time before I can play well... but I think it will be very rewarding in the end
Btw- I have my first guitar lesson tomorrow

I think you'll find lots of us play both. I actually started on guitar, so I can't tell you much about what the transition is like. Going from guitar to bass was pretty easy for me... after all, it's just a big guitar with less strings, right?

I started on bass... went to guitar and lost my bass, played guitar for quite a long time and found the bass again. I will often switch between bass and guitar in a jam session with friends on the fly because one of my friends likes to play both as well.

I've been playing bass for 7 years now... I am tired of not being able to find other musicians who play what I want to hear. So my goal is to become a one man band!

Anyways I just bought a MIA Fender Strat and I am wondering if any other bass players made this transition to guitar. Are there any pointers, tips and tricks you can give me?

I am finding it difficult to play a smaller neck and smaller strings with smaller spacing between them. The thing thats REALLY driving me nuts is chords. I know its gonna take some time before I can play well... but I think it will be very rewarding in the end
Btw- I have my first guitar lesson tomorrow

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The transition from bass to guitar is a tough one. You have to re-train your left hand technique. Going from guitar to bass is much easier. If you can play guitar you can play bass but not the other way around. You could be really good on bass but clueless on guitar.

The advantage to going from bass to guitar is your outlook on music as a whole. You'll understand the importance of bass and the role bass plays in music. Guitar players who pick up a bass have the tendancy to play bass like a guitar. Different instruments have different jobs. Respect both instruments for what they are.

The only advise I can really give you is practice-practice-practice. The lessons will give you some good finger exercises. Eventually you'll get it.

I started playing ukulele then the guitar. I picked out melodies off records and learned the chords that way too. I started to include bass as well (I started at 13) and played both for a while, but I found that the bass is where I really have an interest. I still play guitar and have learned more of the "jazz" voicings (9th, 11th, 13th, b5 etc) recently; always something new to learn!

I also started playing the drums during junior high, but haven't really done a lot with it. I know chords on the keyboard, but I'm not very good at it.

I don't have any real tricks to offer, other than to say just hammer it out! And I think you might find your skills on bass will improve as you grow on guitar (and vice versa.) That's been my own personal experience.

I love bass, but I love guitar too. (And keyboards as well!) I could never give any of them up.

Incidentally, my next instrument is 99% likely to be a Fender Strat. Just gotta have it.

I went from guitar to bass, but I found the transition not that easy. I had some trouble with the frets and strings being farter apart. But I take my bass with me 'op kot' so I can practice every day and not just in the weekends.